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13 DOSA, 1579

Senate opens with no coalition
Furious Republicans took to the floor blasting Democrats, Federalists for "failing to compromise"

THE CAPITOL - The Imperial Senate opened its new session today without a majority coalition running it for the first time in the body's history, as Republican senators took to the floor attacking Democratic and Federalist senators for failing to come to a compromise to organize the Senate. This comes after a last-second appeal by Chancellor Aerandariel Apotecarius to the Democratic and Federalist caucuses to "provide a solid and stable Senate to sufficiently govern the Empire".

However, both the Democratic and Federalist caucuses have fired back. Federalists, fed up with a Republican Party who've stolen a number of their seats in the last several elections, argued that Republicans have been acting in bad faith despite numerous coalition agreements and memorandums of understanding. The Federalists also pointed out that they were upset over the fact that Republicans had promised before to allow Federalists some chairmanships of Senate committees but failed to produce. The Democrats outright attacked the Republicans, saying that in their coalition talks, the Republicans wanted to make the Democrats nothing more than a "junior partner who would back Republican bills no matter what the reservations". Democrats accused the Republicans of being "very unfair and very inconsiderate" towards Democrats who were entering the Senate.

This matter has exploded into controversy, as now with no governing coalition in place it is possible that for the first time in history the Senate could be dissolved by the Throne, as Emperor Tyrael does have the power to issue a decree ordering the Senate dissolved in the case of either a hung Senate or in the absence of a governing coalition, which the latter is presently the case. However, Chancellor Apotecarius has said that the dissolution of the Senate would "cause far too much drama and put the future of this government in incredible jeopardy. I caution the Emperor not to take such a drastic step". The Emperor has not commented on the issue, but aides say the idea of dissolving the Senate has been floated as early as two days ago when it became clear a coalition was impossible.